Soul Empowerment: Guide to Healing Yourself and Others (Paperback)

Michael Bradford has previously written a book about Healing and, for most of us that are used to Reiki and similar hands-on healing, that book would fit in easily with our understanding. This book, takes off into, what has been for me, totally uncharted waters. It essentially deals with healing the soul rather than the physical or energetic bodies. And as such, the way of working it describes is far from what most people might see as Healing and, in fact, has much in common with Psychotherapy!

The book begins by looking at the type of lifetime our soul has chosen to live. These include practice, recovery and integration lifetimes, each including a small case study to deepen understanding. The concept of Soul Agreements is then bought in - agreements we make with others with whom we then incarnate.

Having set the scene as it were, we are then offered ways to increase our awareness and strengthen our intuition in preparation for working with clients to uncover their Lifetime Type and agreements. The soul qualities and personality aspects that we chose to bring into this lifetime with us are explained and discussed.

Much of the middle section of the book then offers techniques and skills to use in working with clients for soul healing, again with plentiful case study material. What is markedly different here from the usual approach in Healing is that the client takes an active part in the process of their healing. They are questioned about their experiences, asked to work with the healer and their permission is sought where appropriate.

Extensive coverage is also given to the healer's own preparation and completion of the healing process.

The final part of the book is given over to advanced healing techniques that include invoking the client's spirit guides, clearing out negative energies, releasing entities and six sample sessions. Again, extensive examples of these skills in practice are given and cautionary notes are offered about the conditions necessary when working with entities.

I have to say that as someone trained as a healer and psychotherapist, this book not only makes so much sense to me, it also makes sense of many things I have experienced and noticed within sessions. I am astounded at how profound and meaningful I have found this book.

This is no doubt in my mind that this book has the power to change the lives of healers and their clients. It moves healing into another dimension (literally!). If you are a healer, then this book is a must. If you are a counsellor, psychotherapist or indeed, any type of therapist, and you are open to the concept of past lives, then again, buy this for I am sure it will make so much sense to you.

Overall, an amazing book that takes healing to a new level. If you are ready, this book will change your life. I can't recommend it too highly. Excellent!

Michael’s approach is unique and cannot be compared to other approaches. Michael is the real thing: an intuitive, open healer who teaches you to take full responsibility for your feelings, everything you manifest in your life and your energy field. In the book he refers to NLP as being a useful tool for tracking information and calibrating to the individual’s own patterns. As an NLP Practitioner, that’s the way I feel.

But to get to the root cause of the problem just like that intuitively is amazing and is what sets him apart. There are some inspirational case histories in Michael’s book to give you a flavour of this, though see him in action was even more powerful. He also guides you through what you can do to get to the root of your discomfort. It compliments his Soul Empowerment workshop perfectly and, as an attendee and keen reader, I am happy to take to anyone who wants to discuss it.

Michael looks at the karma of emotional blockages, what specific lifetime we are in (e.g. “completion,” “mastery”). He looks at what are the real reasons for a person’s discomfort. It turns out that even major illnesses have their roots in emotions. For example cancer is anger turned inwards. These suppressed emotions wreak havoc as we are never present and continually in denial.

The book gives specific techniques to use you intuition to get in touch with what you came here to do and be and to break free from your conditioning, whether it be this life or some previous life. It is not a book to teach you how to heal others. Michael is adamant that we heal ourselves and keep our energy high. From this overflow, we can support other people who decide to change.

Soul Empowerment is a very well written book and compliment’s Bob Scheinfeld’s The Invisible Path to Success book and approach very well. It is an easy read in terms of the structure, is clear and concise. Michael is to the point and you get nugget after nugget of priceless wisdom on each page. Michael ultimately shows us that change can happen quickly when we bring honesty, love and balance to our lives. Soul Empowerment is a unique book in a league of its own. One you can reread for deeper insights when the time is right for you.